2006 Geodynamics Study Tour - Northwestern Iceland

Our group at Go?afoss. n 1000 A.D., at the meeting of the Althing, the Icelanders voted to adopt Christianity. The wooden idols of the Norse mythology were thrown into the falls in a symbolic gesture that swept away the old religion. Thus the Godafoss literally means the Waterfall of the Gods. (Photo by Chris Linder, WHOI)